UPDATE 1:Good morning all. Here’s the second batch of deals for the January sale. These offers will all become available with today’s Store update. Look out for a third batch of savings next Wednesday.

Everybody’s Golf PSP (not available in Bulgaria, Hungary, Qatar)
Was €7.99/£6.99/AU$11.95; now €3.99/£3.19/AU$6.95Additional 10% discount for Plus members

Everybody’s Golf 2 PSP
Was €7.99/£6.99/AU$11.95; now €3.99/£3.19/AU$6.95Additional 10% discount for Plus members

Everybody’s Tennis PSP (not available in Bulgaria, Hungary, Qatar)
Was €7.99/£6.99/AU$11.95; now €3.99/£3.19/AU$6.95Additional 10% discount for Plus members

Pain (not available in Bulgaria, Hungary, Qatar)
Was €7.99/£6.99/AU$11.95; now €3.99/£3.19/AU$6.95Additional 10% discount for Plus members

ORIGINAL POST: Hi everyone! I hope that you had a fantastic holiday period and are enjoying 2013 so far! Hopefully we can make the New Year just a little bit better by introducing the PlayStation Store January Sale.

Awesome Sony! Such sweet Vita deals you managed for us. The care and support you show your handheld is simply amazing! You even managed to secure Resident Evil: Revalaitons from Capcpom on the Vita. The future of the Vita is bright indeed with all the love you keep showering over it. Bravo!

Never, ever ever EVER use the words ‘coming soon’ since early December to say ‘something’ is coming for PSVita like USA got the PSVita Xmas deals with LittleBigPlanet for about 18 USD for PS+ members, Escape Plan 50% discount to 7.50 etc.

You’re managing expactations way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay wrong. Even though something of a sale might come up with PSVita’s 1st years birthday in February or something that is a freaking 2 months later than end of November/early December.

Spot on. Those 13 deals for 2013, have Psychonauts for PS+ members for 2.50 USD (10 bucks normal price) Unfinished Swan for 3 dollars and a bit for PS+ members etc. And yes, they got no PSVita deals with this deals, but they had those at Xmas.

EU didn’t have ‘em for BOTH Xmas as well as this sale. PSVita, dead in the water I guess. The current just over 4 mln early adapting consumers aren’t as important as the 75 mln current PS3 owners/PSN shopping consumers I guess.

I’m hoping and wishing Journey comes to ps+ , any hints?hmmm?
And quite a good sale , i think i might invest in sports champions.
Does anyone else hold off buying older titles in case ps+ get it? , i do it all the time!!

Hi Chris, I wrote to you in the previous January Sale update (comment #128). After getting Mafia II & DLC Bundle, the game doesn’t recognize any of the DLC, it’s like I haven’t got it at all. What’s more, when I go to in-game menu part “Downloadable Content” there’s the same bundle, but redirecting me to the PSS Store to buy it again!
It looks like there are two DLC Bundles, but the one compatible with the game is not showing normally in the PS Store, only by going from the in-game menus. Can you please pass this problem to the guys managing PS Store?

The price drop for “Final Fantasy” is already implemented into the PS store but there is either a error or someone is being a [DELETED] cause they upped the original price at least for Poland.
Original price was 36PLN and with the discount it should be 18PLN but now it’s 39PLN original and 19PLN with discount.
I rally don’t mind the 1PLN difference but it is a [DELETED] move.

If you go into any physical store, you can’t pick and choose what games are reduced and if an American store reduces prices on one product but a European doesn’t that doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world. Even stores with an online presence often have different prices between the two because of their overheads but Chris has said repeatedly that the US and EU stores are managed and operated separately and can’t run the same deals.

As for discounts and offers, don’t forget that we had FOUR Minis free over Christmas, we’re getting SIX PS Mobile games over the coming weeks and for those who don’t have PS+, they’ve done a one month free trial.

If offers / discounts come up for games you don’t want / already have, there are plenty of us that do want them. Yes, the FF offer has been done before but not everyone has been able to get them so it’s great to have that chance again.

I was in GAME the other day and saw a top-up card for Harley Quinn’s Revenge for B:AC and it was priced at £6.49 which I thought was a reasonable price but I had a nagging feeling in the back of my head so did not buy it.

I got home, booted up the the PS Store and there it was; Harley Quinn’s Revenge for £7.99….

So my question to you is If I buy the £6.49 top-up card from GAME will that be the price I pay or will it be the full £7.99 to buy that piece of DLC?

@TinTin I’ve seen that a few times where retail top-up cards have had different prices to the PSN Store. Sometimes in-store prices have been cheaper, other times it has been more expensive but my guess is that the codes you get at the retail checkout are locked to the product and not PSN credit to the value of the item so they should work perfectly.

That’s why I saw some retailers reduce the price of the PS+ cards during the special offer.

#40: It’s a standalone game in the same environment as RDR. It’s really good though!
Just watch out, there are two downloads, the Collection, which requires the original game, and “RDR Undead Nightmare”, which is standalone, but does not include the DLC packs “Legends and Killers” and “Liars and Cheats”.
Both are on offer for the same price.

Is pinball arcade for PS3 meant to come with the vita one? Its listed there as free but don’t wanna download if its not meant to be prays rainbow moon isn’t in the Igc as I just got that and unfinished swan

Seeing as you guys seem pretty big on Final Fantasy, how about bringing Crisis Core: FF VII to the store for PSP & VITA?

That would make me a happy moogle, kupo!

Is their also a fleeting chance at least of seeing Kingdom Hearts appear on the PSN? Something tells me the 1.5 Final Mix HD collection won’t see an European release.. Just like FF: Type-0 (Another game we should have on Vita if not for SE’s stupidity)

Call me greedy but, I’d really like to see some Tekken avatars added one day too. Street Fighter has enough don’t you think? >.>

Now druing the sale the downloadable ps3 games actually have reasonable prices. I still prefer physical copies though but PS All-stars for 25€ sounds fair. I might buy Wolfestein because it’s an epic classic

Chris would it be possible to confirm that PS all stars will not be a PS+ free game for at least a decent time after the sale? would hate to buy the game and then receive it free a couple of months later, if it is on the cards Max Payne 3 is looking good instead!

Dear Chris,
now, im gonna ask u a question about a game,, that ALL OF U forgotten. It calls C O U N T E R S T R I K E : G L O B A L O F F E N S I V E ! u remember? this game that was released MONTHS ago and ONLY FOR THIS GAME no one of u ever said something about the final european release… my 20 euro psn card is nearly rotten because i dont know whats the actuall stand! So i please u, chris, to give me, US new infos? u dont know the release date? OK! BUT SAY WHATS THE ACTUELL STAND! im soo disappointed! Evrything gets a release… ALSO SKYRIM! SKYRIM MAN! say evrything u know abot cs go! We want to know it! ME and thousands of other players.
ps: no information isnt a answer….

We would love to be able to update you on this but we honestly have no news. There are legal issues surrounding the title which we do not have all the information for but as soon as we have positive news we will let you know

mafia 2 dlc bundle is not 8.99 on the store its cumming up as 18.99 like any1 is going 2 pay that fix the prices nd hope ps+ will get new games motorstorm lbp2 infamous 2 have been on it 4 ages think every1 is fed up with seein them on it what happend 2 batman

where is our 13 for 13 sale? american gets littlebigplanet karting for 10$
i havent checked recently but on our store the cheapest ive ever seen it is 60$

american always gets there stuff cheaper (and no its not different exchange rates, ive checked) i saw games like killzone 2 (among many others)on their store for 7$ and thats not even a sale. the cheapest ive ever seen a full game on our store is 20$ and the ones that are that cheap are super old ones that were extremely unpopular.

considering creating a virtual debit card and doing business with america’s store >:(

thanks 4 the replay cant belive i missed batman by a day thought it would had been on playstation plus 4 a lil while like the other games any chance it will come back 4 download and is there a demo comming out 4 gta5 in the comming months be4 it release date

Our “hero” title for each month as we like to call it is only available for 4/5 weeks depending on how the weeks in the month fall, all other PS3 titles will be available for 3 months, it won’t be back in Plus I’m afraid, we don’t re use content

Good stuff, glad you are enjoying the discounts, we are always trying to bring more discounts across a range of titles and we are always trying to work on discounts for the titles you all request so hopefully we can continue to please your wallet!

I would like to download the Call of Duty World at War map packs especially for the zombie maps because of the fact that online multiplayer is not playable due to hackers. I don’t think the price (10 euros each and the game released 4 years ago) is right since i won’t be able to use the multiplayer maps! can we expect a sale or a price drop at least 50% off?

2. Last day of Borderlands 2 sale, 23rd Jan, I bought the game for 24.99, but a day earlier it was around 22.99 because of the PS+ price reduction, but on the last day as the store was updated and more B2 content was added (skins), then PS+ price red vanished although the B2 sale was still active, and I had to pay the price without PS+ reduction. Was this meant to be?

You should have still got a PS Plus discount on the 23rd as this was the last day it was on sale. Unforunately I can’t do anything from my side to help but customer services should be able to credit your wallet with the difference

There does seem to be a little issue with it at the moment, I found that if you remove it from your basket and then go back to the product page, the correct Plus price should be shown and this is then the price you will pay at the checkout.

If you did not recieve your Plus discount please contact customer services who will be able to refund the difference

We can never say never but generally we try not to use games that we have had a discount on recently. If you are talking about PlayStation All Stars then no need to worry we have no plans for that in Plus anytime soon

I recently seen advertised Final fantasy items on sale, the Item in question is Final Fantasy 7 (VII) I went to purchase this item today and is still £7.99 not as advertised 3.99 I do not live in the excluded countries, my other purchases are fine,

I have bought PSN points particularly for final fantasy 7 and other series I do not want to miss out on the offer.Hope you can shed some light thank you.

I don’t know if this have already been commented on this blog update, but if you don’t own a ps3 and just want to buy the vita version of ps allstars you can log in to the online psn store on your Pc or vita browser and buy the game from the january sale section like I did at work earlier today and I was able to download it from my vita instantly! It’s actually 30% cheaper to buy both versions (buy the ps3 version and get the vita game as well) then just buying the vita standalone game from the Playstation store on your vita :-p

Meh, RDR and FF have already been on sale, more than once maybe even :s I just can’t get a break with these sales :d The few times I decided to wait for pricecut (Journey, ME1 and Okami on psn), I gave up and got them full price afterall..

I’d like to see more PSN exclusive games and dlc going on sale, full games are going to get reduced in price in retail stores anyway..

Borderlands 2 dlc is ok, although still expensive, but I have yet to beat the actual game and have others getting priority now so I think I’ll skip..

Chris, you said that the Playstation All Stars discount would end at the end of the day. On the product page it shows the discounted price, but when it’s added to the basket it no longer has the discount.